INDECO – Integrated Indicators for Tracking and Enhancing the Circular Bioeconomy Transition

HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-07

The transition to a circular and sustainable bioeconomy requires robust, harmonised indicators that can guide decisions at local, regional, and economic agent levels. Existing monitoring frameworks largely focus on macroeconomic aggregates or linear economic sectors, leaving a critical gap in micro-level monitoring tools specific to bioeconomy-related processes, materials, and value chains.

INDECO aims to fill this gap by developing, testing, and validating a multidimensional, lifecycle-based indicator framework tailored for the circular bioeconomy. This includes applications across agriculture, forestry, fisheries, biowaste, biorefineries, bio-based products, and related value chains. The project will co-create these indicators with stakeholders, enabling their practical use by companies (including SMEs), households, regional governments, and financial actors, and ensuring alignment with EU priorities such as the Green Deal, Circular Economy Action Plan, and Bioeconomy Strategy.